The Maui Ocean Center has spent years researching the width, breadth, and depth of the and incredible underwater ecosystem of the Hawaiian Islands, gaining invaluable insight into the life cycles of the marine fish, fowl, and animals that call Paradise home.

Guests can marvel at the nation's largest live coral display, showcasing the colorful, rock-hard, and ever-evolving living habitat for such sea creatures as eels, invertebrates, and many species of fish. Because it provides both shelter and food to all the creatures that live within its ecosystem, some marine scientists have called coral the most important animal in the underwater world.

The center exhibits more than two dozen varieties of invertebrates and crustaceans, including different species of shrimp, mollusks, see vegetation, octopi, starfish, and lobster.